There is nothing whatsoever in the link you've posted which contradicts anything in my comment above. What's more, some of that does not add up: > Most likely,

There is nothing whatsoever in the link you've posted which contradicts anything in my comment above. What's more, some of that does not add up: > Most likely, it would have occurred in the same way if Germany had not phased out nuclear and promoted renewables. Yes, if Germany both did not have renewables and also had not phased out nuclear, the amount of energy generation from coal might have remained the same. But if they had not phased out nuclear but kept the renewables, the energy generation from coal would not have kept the same, because they would have had the nuclear to use instead of the coal. And another really silly comment here: > Nuclear plants are gradually shutting down, but what is missing is a mechanism to retire the coal industry. If the sun is not shining and the wind is not blowing, you can't generate electricity from solar panels and wind. So you can't phase out coal or nuclear power and replace it with solar or wind, because there is no way to store the electrity. It has to be generated on demand. Already wind power in Germany is oversupplied and they are paying people to switch off the turbines. And here, repeating the same nonsense again: > In Germany it took a long time for renewable energy not to be portrayed anymore as a niche activity, unable to provide large-scale power. In international debates this notion still seems commonplace. Mistakenly, as we have tried show. And you've failed, because you've completely ignored the issue of supply and demand. There has to be either a way to store the electricity, or a way to generate electricity when the sun is not shining and wind is not blowing. The only way to store electricity which isn't pie in the sky is hydro, and Germany doesn't have enough hydro capacity to store the electrity, and won't have it because of geography. > Important issues still need to be solved, such as safeguarding security of supply with high shares of volatile renewables Which is what the coal is doing, now that the nuclear is switched off, and the whole of the rest of the article is not worth the pixels it's printed on.